Example sentences of "they to be " in BNC.

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1 Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ?
2 Or are they to be softly stretched and so angled that they curve upwards and over before descending silently as in Fokine 's Les Sylphides ?
3 Were they to be friends ?
4 This begins to face education managers with a fundamental dilemma — are they inside the cage with the teaching profession or are they to be on the outside exercising a more explicit control function than ever before ?
5 After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency .
6 But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ?
7 Even less than Local Authorities are they to be relied on for continuity of policy , or an ability to look beyond the day after tomorrow .
8 They belong to the countryside and were they to be evicted the countryside itself would cease to exist .
9 Indeed , some would say , without much exaggeration , that , were they to be deprived of music , life would lose its meaning ’ ( Storr , 1970 , p.363 ) .
10 How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ?
11 How strong ‘ ought ’ they to be anyway ? ’
12 No longer are they to be considered as Princess Diana 's or the Duchess of York 's children .
13 Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour .
14 ( A trifling proportion , perhaps — though students of the trivial are usually intrigued to learn that all the dissolved salts in the sea , were they to be dried out , would be enough to cover the entire land surface of the planet to a depth of 150 feet . )
15 Such skills and abilities are not the prerogative of a particular sort of teacher or of a particular style of teaching — nor are they to be found only in teachers who work with the youngest children in our primary schools .
16 How are they to be kept ‘ apart ’ ?
17 How were they to be filled ?
18 For the sake of safety and obedience to orders , ought they to be employed at all ?
19 It has the result of making your notes illegible and unusable — for , after all , are n't they to be put into immaculate form later ?
20 Were they to be three in that huge bed ?
21 As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him .
22 Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand .
23 For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? "
24 For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? "
25 Where are they to be found ?
26 Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ?
27 Who are they to be denied any chance of having future pension rights secured under new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 ?
28 Are they to be defined as refugees ?
29 Are sportsmen and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’
30 Are sportsment and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’
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